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In 1912 they sold Rancho El Escorpión, still 1,110 acres (4.5 km 2), to George Platt. He established a dairy operation on renamed Platt Ranch variously called Ferndale, ‘escorpion’, or Cloverdale Dairy. [25] The land was not incorporated into the city of Los Angeles until 1958, and Rancho El Escorpión remained open and undeveloped until 1960.
Spanish; el encino is oak; California has 20 native species of oak tree [20] Rancho El Encino Los Angeles Case no. 392, Southern District of California: Rancho El Escorpión: 1845 Odón Chihuya, Urbano Chari, Manuel [21] Mexico 01.5 (1 1 ⁄ 2 Spanish leagues) 461 Odón Chihuya, Urbano Chari, Manuel 1,109.65 acres (449.06 ha) December 11, 1876: 409
[25] [26] In 1912 the Chumash heirs sold Rancho El Escorpión to George Platt. He established a dairy operation on renamed Platt Ranch variously called Ferndale, "escorpion," or Cloverdale Dairy. [27] The Rancho El Escorpión-Platt Ranch was not incorporated into Los Angeles and its water system until 1958 and was left undeveloped until 1961.
For the Valley communities, the choice was consent to annexation or do without. On March 29, 1915, by a vote of 681 to 25, residents of 108,732 acres (440 km 2) of the San Fernando Valley (excluding Rancho El Escorpión and the communities of Owensmouth, Lankershim, Burbank and San Fernando) voted to be annexed by the City of Los Angeles ...
In 1845 a Mexican land grant established Rancho El Escorpión here, one of the few granted to Native Americans. The former adobe rancho buildings were located within the current park (adobes existed 1840s-1960s). [10] [11] [12] The rancho was purchased by George Platt in 1912, becoming the Platt Ranch in 1912. [13] [14]
Espíritu Chijulla around 1900. Leonis died in 1889, after falling from a wagon. [10] Having amassed a worth of over $300,000, he left the majority of his assets to his Basque relatives and only allocated $10,000 to Espíritu who he referred to as his "faithful housekeeper," despite her having been his common-law wife; he further stated that he wanted "to prevent her from being reduced to ...
When the Rancho Ex-Mission San Fernando grant was patented in 1873, it was surveyed at nearly twenty six square leagues, the single largest land grant in California. [24] Before the De Celis grant, Andrés Pico, brother of Governor Pío Pico, had leased the Rancho Ex-Mission San Fernando in 1845. In 1853, Andrés Pico acquired an undivided half ...
A typical scene in the Chihuahua desert. The Sánchez Navarro ranch (1765–1866) in Mexico was the largest privately owned estate or latifundio in Latin America. At its maximum extent, the Sánchez Navarro family owned more than 67,000 square kilometres (16,500,000 acres) of land, an area almost as large as the Republic of Ireland and larger than the American state of West Virginia.